Harsha Krovi

Postdoc at Brigham and Women's. Immunology. Always on the lookout for hot takes. BLM.

[Michael Baym @baym]

Pretending like someone with an AI model and some gene synthesis is anything close in threat scale to the horrible diseases that we have spent centuries beating back serves more to market AI tools than provide a sober realistic assessment of threats

[Michael Baym @baym]

Preventing bad actors from creating synthetic versions of dead plagues is a good thing, but doing it while also disarming our ability to control real biothreats like screwworm and natural pandemic respiratory viruses is pretty much the definition of biosecurity theater

[Dan Landau @landau_lab]

Exciting breakthrough technology from the lab, now live in @CellCellPress ! Instead of cutting the genome where proteins bind (e.g., Cut&Tag), D&D-seq scars the DNA with a deaminase, allowing single cell genome mapping of TFs and chromatin remodellers!

[NASA Space Alerts @NASASpaceAlerts]

#MeteorSighting: Eyewitnesses in New England and @NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite reported a bright fireball on Saturday, May 30, at 2:06 p.m EDT accompanied by a loud noise. The meteor appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles over northeast MA and southeast NH. The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud noise.

Eyewitness accounts supplied by the American Meteor Society.

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

Sean Eddy developed profile HMMs in the 1990s, ultimately leading to his HMMER project, which includes JackHMMER that AlphaFold relies on. Apparently his work has been determined to be "of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer". Obviously that's not true.
https://t.co/LZgihGGnUk

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Brett Favre should be in prison for stealing welfare money from people in Mississippi

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Pope Leo XIV states AI must be disarmed:

“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[Boston Celtics @celtics]

Elevated his game to the next level ⚡️

Congrats @FCHWPO

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here's how the corruption works:

Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump

Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it

Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Every Republican that supported releasing the Epstein files has now been voted out of office. Let that sink in, MAGAts. You belong to the #Rapeublican Party. Own it you sick fucks

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

70% of Americans think AI is moving too fast.

77% think entire industries will be eliminated.

97% say AI safety should be subject to rules.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s time Congress listened to the American people — not just the billionaires pushing it — and regulated AI.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump just defeated the sole Republican who forced DOJ to start releasing the Epstein files.

Tells you everything you need to know about Trump — and what’s left of the feckless @GOP.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

What is the President and his family hiding?

Blatant corruption.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump lied to you.

He said he’d fight for you.

Instead, he’s building himself a $1 billion ballroom and handing his criminal cronies a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund.

MAGA, wake up.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

We cannot allow corruption to be normalized. We'll lose our country if we do.

We NEED to stand up — we HAVE to be as ruthless.

For things to change, WE NEED TO CHANGE.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Trump gets:

- $100M arch
- $1B ballroom fund
- A gold coin with his face on it
- A $1.8B slush fund for his MAGA buddies

Meanwhile, he's left Americans with higher grocery bills, higher health care costs, and higher gas prices.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

If this man doesn’t end up in prison we simply don’t have a country anymore

[Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

The DOJ just said the IRS will no longer pursue any claims it may have against Trump, his family members and his companies over unpaid taxes.

Pure. Unadulterated. Corruption.

And self-dealing.

The tax-dodging President gets himself and his whole family a tax break, thanks to Todd Blanche.